Wrecked Amigas, Commodore 64 and a Sinclair - if you missed it this time, you can catch it next year and have a life-changing "falling in love with" experience!

I started going to Demo-Parties in 1995, and now, many many years later - every year during the easter holidays, top-geeks from over 30 countries fly in to Germany to participate in the many competitions coders, musicians, graphics-artists and multimedia geniuses can participate in at the Revision Demoparty and compete against the best of the best and blow the audiences mind with the latest tweak and twist in audio-visual presentations you normally would find in the latest games made by the best people with the highest paying jobs in the industry.

The real party is outside!

Code, drink, repeat - if you want to be seen by the game-industry you have to compete on the demo-scene and show off all your skills, as in this business headhunting is more or less the only way in. If you can impress - you will have more offers on the table then you can handle, so if you are a coder sitting in a dead end job completely bored out of your mind and want a change - well, call up a couple of your most skilled friends and form a demo-group and tour the world!

"So you are telling me that every easter, the best people from the game-industry sit around a campfire, drinking beer, smoking weed and singing songs somewhere in Europe?!?" - Yes!

"Give that man some money! He needs a new Commodore 64 :)"

Where everybody knows your skills!

The best people in the game-industry are very active on the demo-scene, and it is on the demo-scene benchmarks are made every year, and improved quality year after year in audio-visual presentations that for normal people may look like animations, but for abnormal people who know better, it is so much more then that.

The Demoscene is eye-candy made by the best and presented to the rest, it is a place to really make good friends and connections with humans who brain in companies like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Blizzard, Steam and many more.

Yes - It is a subculture! Always has been!

Every time a demo-party becomes mainstream popular, it moves to another location. It may look like a place for gamers, but it is not. In fact - gaming at a demo-party is just something you don´t do unless you made the game yourself. So when a party like for example The Gathering in Norway became too popular among pc-gamers, the demo-scene simply moved its competition to another location.

The Demoscene is where you want to go if you truly have a passion for the culture, it is however not the place you want to go and play with your pokemons as chances are that you will be making an ass of yourself in front of the people who made parts of the game without you even knowing it.

You don´t use your corporate real name at a Demo-Party, you simply don´t present yourself as "Roger Smith from Australia" but rather "TrollZapper of The Underworld" as it makes it so much easier to talk about that time you hacked the core of some long-forgotten game-console and installed your own 4k intro on it. Or that time when you won the wild-compo but could not get up on stage to receive your prize because you were too exhausted so you just collapsed and fell asleep under your table and missed the whole thing.

How the scene keeps track of itself and its members

I knew you wanted me to answer this question at the end - so I will give you some very secret links you can check out on your own time:

At demoparty.net you can see which small and large demo-party that is up next. Everyone of them have competitions with prizes and these are the arenas you as a demo-group or individual have to compete to become a name on scene.org which is a non-profit organization that issue what is known as the scene-id and also host the entire archive of parties all the way back to 1987.

For a very good in-depth history of the Demoscene, the early days and of course a great introduction to Fairlight & friends check out this article from hugi: THE DELIGHT OF ETERNAL MIGHT - THE HISTORY OF FAIRLIGHT

This years winners of Revision 2016 - The whole Price-Giving ceremony!

I have seen a lot of talented people here on steemit who probably could give these guys some real competition next year, can you vision yourself winning a prize at Revision 2017?

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Thank you for reading this introduction-post to the demoscene, hope to see you there :)

all photos/video by revision, cysion and scene.org